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October 2, 2025 to November 29, 2025
On view October 2 – November 29, 2025
PULSO/PULSE
Gallery exhibition by Adrián Arias
Gallery 212 and the Causeway Gallery
PULSO/PULSE is a journey through movement, memory, and dreams. Created during live performances, tributes, and visions, these works capture the heartbeat of sound, ancestral widsom, and fleeting oments of transformation.
Join us for the opening celebration on Thursday, October 2 during Art Walk.
- Join us an opening celebration on Thursday, October 2 during Art Walk.
- Main reception Saturday, October 11 from 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
- Adrián Arias will give an artis talk at 7:00 PM during the reception
The Live Paintings emerge in real time with music and audience, translating rhythm into color and gesture. Tributes honor mentors and friends, turning remembrance into luminous presence. In Dreams, hummingbirds, hearts, and ancient leaders appear as guides of healing and renewal. The Medicinal Goddesses reveal the curative power of plants and earth, while the Heart Oracles pulse with color and poetic love.
Together, these works create a single vibrant beat—an invitation to feel, remember, and awaken the pulse within.
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3 – My Heart Full of Birds
Painted live during Bobby McFerrin Circle Songs + Motion at The Freight, Berkeley. Acrylic on Arches paper / 24 x 36 inches / framed
$600
8 – Yolanda Wakes up in the Middle of the Flowers
Yolanda Lopez (1942-2021) iconic artist of the Chicano art movement, was Adrián’s friend and
mentor.
Watercolor & ink on Arches paper / 52 x 91 inches / 2024 / NOT framed
$3,500
10 – Dancing with your Fire Tree
To my dear friend and collaborator Sherri Mills who left us this year
Watercolor & ink on Arches paper / 24 x 36 inches / 2025 / framed
$500
11 – Hummingbird Hovering in My Dream
I dreamed that the Hummingbird of Fire pyramid (a commission to create an installation at Burningman) transformed into a person, an indigenous goddess crowned as a hummingbird, reclaiming her space on this earth. Watercolor & ink on Arches paper / 26 x 40 inches / 2025 / framed
$900
15 – Lady of Cao is Back
La Señora de Cao esta de regreso
I dreamed of the Lady of Cao, an ancient Moche leader from Peru, returning to our world with
an abundance of fish and sacred Mochica symbols to heal the troubles of our time.
Watercolor, acrylic & ink on Arches paper / 45 x 60 inches / 2025 / NOT framed
$1,500
19 – Medicinal Goddess of Pansy
The Pansy Goddess embodies gentle healing and quiet strength. Known for soothing skin and easing inflammation, she merges with vibrant petals, offering balance, comfort, and a tender connection to heart and memory. Watercolor & ink on Arches paper / 26 x 40 inches / 2024 / framed
$1,000
25 – Orange Heart Oracle
Acrylic on Arches paper, 26 x 40 inches, 2023 inspired by the poetic words of Lindsey Crawford Acrylic on Arches paper, 26 x 40 inches / 2023 / framed
$1,200
About Adrián Arias
“I grew up in the north of Peru, in the ancestral lands of the Mochicas, where the sea whispered secrets and the earth bore wonderful fruits. My grandparents, Elena and Fernando, nourished me with the essentials, what springs from the ocean and the fertile depth of the soil, while my mother, strong as a mountain, fought for the family with hands of fire and words that became poetry and fantastic stories. My father drew magic with each brushstroke, giving life to the invisible in his paintings, while my grandmother María, with her honey-colored eyes, enveloped us in a mantle of protection as delicate as it was powerful. Around us, my ancestors, like luminous shadows, guarded our lives with their eternal presence. From those days a flame arose in me, a call that still guides my walk. Today, I am a bridge between times and geographies: a painter, a poet, a weaver of creative communities. From California, with the spirit of the south in northern lands, weaving the power of the elements with art, as a language of freedom, resistance and the inexhaustible creativity coming from dreams.”
– Adrián